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Order LXVII. MONOTROPEiE. 
[By D. Pbain.] 
Leafless, erect, white or coloured root-parasites ; stems herbaceous, 
scaly, simple or forked. Floivers solitary on the stem or branches, 
regular, hermaphrodite. Sepals usually resembling the scales, 2 to C, 
often deciduous. Petals 3 to 6. Stamens 6 to 12, hypogynous, 2-seriate ; 
filaments filiform or flattened ; anthers 2-celled, or by confluence 
1-celled. Ovary superior, globose or fusiform, 1- to 6-celled ; style 
cylindric, stigma peltate ; ovules very many on axial or parietal 
placentas. Fruit capsular, loculicidally 4- to 6-valved, or indehiscent 
and baccate. Seeds very many, minute ; testa often loosely saccate ; 
embryo very minute, solid. — Distrib. Genera 9, in dense woods, 
mostly in temperate regions, all in the northern hemisphere. 
1. Cheilotheca, Hook. fil. 
Small herbs, with erect, simple or forked, white or coloured stems ; 
branches 1-flowered. Sepals 3 to 5, narrowly oblong like the upper- 
most stem-scales. Petals 3, erect, obtuse. Stamens 6 ; anthers linear, 
cells 2, confluent at the apex, dehiscing by marginal slits or pores. 
Ovary fusiform, 1-celled, narrowed into the cylindric style ; stigma 
globose-conic, usually slightly lohed ; placentas 6, parietal, 2-fid, the 
segments covered throughout by numerous ovules. Fruit fleshy, inde- 
hiscent, baccate. — Distrib. Species 2, Indo-Chinese and Malayan. 
1. Cheilotheca malayana, Scorfc. in Hook. fil. Icon. Plant., XVI. 
t. 1564. A root-parasite in dense forest ; stem herbaceous, erect, 
simple or 2- to 3-forked, 6 to 9 in. high, stoutish. Scales ovate-oblong, 
obtuse, imbricated, gradually increasing upwards, lurid purple ( Scorte - 
cliini) or waxy white ( Kunstler ). Flowers terminal on stem and 
branches, 1 in. long, hidden inside the uppermost scales, and bright 
yellow (Kunstler), or with the tips of the petals exserted and white 
( Scortechini ). Sepals 5, resembling the uppermost scales, imbricate, 
linear-oblong, obtuse or sub-acute, glabrous. Petals 3, rather larger 
than the sepals, rounded-cucullate at the apex, externally glabrous, 
internally more or less pilose. Stamens 6, filaments puberulous or 
pilose, alternately somewhat shorter and longer ; anthers short, innate, 
hippocrepiform, cells confluent at apex, dehiscing by marginal pores. 
Ovary narrowly fusiform ; stigma obscurely 4-lobed ; placentas 6, 
parietal. Fruit white, fleshy, baccate, -75 in. across, tipped by the 
persistent remains of the stout style. Prain in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 
LXXIII. 2, 205. 
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